Jordan Sand

Jordan Sand is Professor of Japanese History and Culture at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He holds a masters degree in architecture history from the University of Tokyo and a doctorate in history from Columbia University. His research focuses on urbanism, material culture and the history of everyday life. He is the author of House and Home in Modern Japan (Harvard, 2004), Tokyo Vernacular: Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found Objects (California, 2013) and 帝国日本の生活空間 (Living Spaces of Imperial Japan; Iwanami, 2015). He has also published on urban fire and disaster resilience, historical memory, museums and cultural heritage policy, and the history of food. He has served as visiting professor at Sophia University, Waseda University, the University of Tokyo, Michigan University, and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. He is presently writing a history of the Ise shrines as well as researching informal settlements in Asian cities.